Security for Startups: Protection on a Budget
Author: John Stevens / Source: Entrepreneur The Woerndle brothers, Carl and Alex, founded Distribute.IT in 2002 and experienced the various phases of growth. After successfully scaling their company over nine years, they had roughly 30,000 clients who paid...
Sana Health aims to stop insomnia with smart goggles
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch When Solar Impulse pilot Bertrand Piccard set out to fly around the world in a plane that uses no fuel, he knew he wasn’t going to get much rest. During the journey, he would be able to sleep, at a maximum, three...
Want to Save Your Business an Hour a Day? Automate These 11 Tasks.
Author: John Rampton / Source: Entrepreneur Automation may be considered a job killer, but it’s also a life-saver for small businesses who are looking for ways to streamline daily tasks while saving both time and money. Sound impossible? It’s already a...
Payment firm Soft Space raises $5M to expand in Southeast Asia and Japan
Author: Jon Russell / Source: TechCrunch Soft Space, a payment provider in Southeast Asia, has close its $5 million Series A as it looks to expand across the region, and potentially into Japan. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based Soft Space works with large...
Brief: SoftBank’s $93b vision fund triggers fears of another startup valuation bubble
Author: Sumit Chakraberty / Source: Tech in Asia Masayoshi Son at SoftBank World 2016. Photo credit: The news SoftBank’s $93 billion tech fund, which is the largest ever, has set off alarm bells of crazy valuations and mega funding rounds skewing the startup...
First Year of Recreational Marijuana Sales Are a Tax Windfall for Oregon
Author: dispensaries.com / Source: Entrepreneur Economic advisors in Oregon have released their first estimate of what the state will make taxing marijuana sales. As in Colorado and Washington, the numbers are large and growing. By the end of 2017, the state...
7 Elements of Company Culture That Ensure Your Business Keeps Improving
Author: Martin Zwilling / Source: Entrepreneur Many startups and entrepreneurs I advise still default to growing their business via the traditional top-down, order-taking culture. I’m convinced you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers and...
You Can Train Your Mind to Be More Positive: Here’s How
Author: Aj Agrawal / Source: Entrepreneur When we talk about positivity, a lot of times that concept can be quickly written off as “pseudoscience” or “high-minded conversation.” However, while some skepticism of the powers of positive thinking may be valid,...
The Tech Industry’s Missed Opportunity: Funding Black Women Founders
Source: Fast Company This is a tale of two tech startups. The first is a messaging app that allows a user to send a one-word greeting to a friend and nothing more. There is no messaging functionality, filtering features, or ability to provide a longer message. In...
Binded raises another $950K for its copyright-protecting tools
Author: Anthony Ha / Source: TechCrunch Binded aims to make it easier for photographers to protect their intellectual property by creating a permanent record of their copyright in a public database, namely the blockchain. The startup was previously known as...
Rulai launches ‘low-code’ chatbot development tool and raises $6.5 million
Author: Jonathan Shieber / Source: TechCrunch Customer experience chatbot developer Rulai has launched a new “low-code” chatbot development tool and raised $6.5 million to roll it out. The development team at Rulai, with offices in Beijing and Campbell,...
We’re #5: PA start-ups are on the rise
Author: Jonathan Takiff / Source: Philly.com View Gallery Smack Innovations Gregory Hanuschak showed off his "after-market" SafeConnect car-smartening device in the Philly zone at the SXSW trade show in Austin, Texas. Entrepreneurship is on the rise in...
3 Reasons to Start Copying Your Competitors Today
Author: Craig Simpson / Source: Entrepreneur I know what you’re thinking. “Copy my competitors? Isn’t that unethical? Isn’t that illegal? I’m not doing that!” But wait—hear me out. I’m not telling you to cleverly steal their marketing plan and duplicate...
Spin raises $8 million as bike-sharing battle heats up in the US
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch Bike sharing has taken a turn in the U.S., following trends in China. The new mode is “dockless,” where companies distribute bikes around a city or campus to be rented per trip instead of dispensing them from one...
Mogees picks up seed funding to put audio-based gesture recognition tech into new devices
Author: Steve O'Hear / Source: TechCrunch Mogees, the London startup behind the Mogees Pro and Mogees Play contact microphone and machine learning-based music and gaming devices, has raised $1.1 million in seed funding — capital it plans to use to embed its...
Rackspace acquires TriCore, adds enterprise applications to cloud management mix
Author: Ron Miller / Source: TechCrunch Rackspace announced today it was purchasing TriCore, giving it an enterprise applications management play to go along with its cloud management services. The announcement comes just one day after the company announced...
‘Food revolution’: Megabrands turn to small startup ideas from kale chips to vegan burgers
Author: Martinne Geller / Source: The Independent Coca-Cola has had a mixed record; its investment in Honest Tea was a success, but a fermented soda and a Japanese tea failed to take off in the United States Food and drink megabrands are seeing their sales...
Career coaching service Paragon One gets $1.9M seed funding from investors including Y Combinator
Author: Catherine Shu / Source: TechCrunch College is supposed to be a life-defining experience–but that doesn’t mean students always graduate with all the skills they need to build their lives. Paragon One, an online career coaching service and mentor...